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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792033603321

Titolo

Inside/out : lesbian theories, gay theories / / edited by Diana Fuss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1991

ISBN

1-135-20091-2

0-415-90237-1

0-203-69955-6

1-299-28516-3

1-135-20092-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FussDiana <1960->

Disciplina

306.76/6

Soggetti

Homosexuality

Lesbianism

Male homosexuality

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-423).

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Inside/Out; I Decking Out: Performing Identities; 1 Imitation and Gender Insubordination; 2 Boys Will Be Girls: The Politics of Gay Drag; 3 Who Are ""We""? Gay ""Identity"" as Political (E)motion (A Theoretical Rumination); 4 Seeing Things: Representation, the Scene of Surveillance, and the Spectacle of Gay Male Sex; II Cutting Up: Specters, Spectators, Authors; 5 Anal Rope; 6 Female Spectator, Lesbian Specter: The Haunting; 7 A Parallax View of Lesbian Authorship; 8 Believing in Fairies: The Author and The Homosexual

III Zoning In: Body/Parts9 The Queen's Throat: (Homo)sexuality and the Art of Singing; 10 Below the Belt: (Un)Covering The Well of Loneliness; 11 Rock Hudson's Body; IV Acting Up: AIDS, Allegory, Activism; 12 AIDS in America: Postmodern Governance, Identity, and Experience; 13 ""All the Sad Young Men"": AIDS and the Work of Mourning; 14 Undead; 15 Shocking Pink Praxis: Race and Gender on the ACT UP Frontlines; V Speaking Out: Teaching In; 16 Visualizing Safe Sex: When Pedagogy and Pornography Collide; 17 School's Out; Source Bibliography; List of Contributors



Sommario/riassunto

Lesbians and gays have gone from ""coming out,"" to ""acting up,"" to ""outing,""  meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in Inside/Out employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics, and discourse theory) to investigate representations of sex and sexual difference in literature, film, video, music, and photography. Engaging the figures of divas, dykes, vampires and queens, the contributors address issues such as AIDS, pornography, pedagogy, authorship, and activism. Inside/Out</ST